Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather resume watching Gossip Girl after the hiatus of that show (and this one). Topics include Engaged and Underage, religion, melodrama, and thermodynamics.

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Episode 54: Pascal’s Wager originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather return to Friday Night Lights, discussing season 1 episodes 8 and 9 and focusing on the thematic unity of FNL episodes—with reference to The Wire (drink), Gossip Girl and Glee—problems of group membership, and the creation of class difference.

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Episode 53: Chekhov’s Bag Of Peas originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather return to Friday Night Lights, discussing season 1 episodes 5 through 7 and focusing on conflicts between the social and the moral and normative order, the extreme variability of social capital, the tension between authenticity and artifice in the visual style of the show, the ethnography of the pep rally, drilling Tyra for oil, access to capital, and competing social orders and uses of violence.

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Episode 52: Closed Pep Economy originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan Sheely, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather consider Community’s Christmas episode as a parody of Glee, as well as the other musical numbers in the show.

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Episode 51: Felt Goatees for Everybody originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather take Gossip Girl through the Season 5 winter finale, focusing on the ChIvy intruder plot as well as the revelation of (the) Gossip Girl’s sources.

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Episode 50: Chivy League originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider Friday Night Lights Season 1 Episodes 3–4, focusing on ritual actions and social expectations, the difference between narrative and thematic spoilers, violence as the continuation of sex by other means (homosociality and the ookie convertible), the nature of power (individual vs. discursive, Voodoo vs. Smash).

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Episode 49: Voodoo Smash originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider the latest episode of Gossip Girl, expressive utility, taking the robots apart, and the New York Media Landscape.

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Episode 48: The Futility Condition originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan Sheely, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather call an audible and dive into Friday Night Lights Season 1. They attempt to situate the show within the discourse already in progress; digress into the education of East African cattle pastoralists; consider combat, sublimated combat, and really sublimated combat; draw parallels between football players, battle rappers, French troubadours, and Masai warriors; and consider the Rally Girls’ social theater.

Next week: We return to Gossip Girl.

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Episode 47: Men Are Coming To Destroy You originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather return to consider Season 5 of Gossip Girl, Friday Night Lights, and, of course, The Wire.

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Episode 46: Novel Idea originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider the last few episodes of Gossip Girl Season 4, including Charlie, surveillance, the principal agent problem, and the merits of whiteboards vs. chalkboards.

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Episode 45: That Most Turgid of Sciences originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]